Famine of glorious infants; dragons and Sirens
About famine of the glorious infants he speaks, as Jerusalem not even having been able like the wild animals to hold out a breast to them. And the excess of the passion also works a forgetting of nature. And dragons—or also the Sirens according to Symmachus—you will hear as the evil spirits, those who nursed their own newborns with evil milk. And such are those introduced by the teachings of the impious.
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 4, 3. Περὶ λιμοῦ τῶν ἐνδόξων λέγει βρεφῶν, ὡς τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ μηδὲ τοῖς ἀγρίοις ζώοις ὁμοίως θηλὴν αὐτοῖς προτεῖναι δεδυνημένης. ἡ δὲ τοῦ πάθους ὑπερβολὴ καὶ φύσεως λήθην ἐργάζεται. δράκοντας δὲ ἢ καὶ τὰς κατὰ Σύμμαχον Σειρῆνας ἀκούσει τὰ πονηρὰ πνεύ- ματα, τὰ τοὺς ἑαυτῶν νεογνοὺς πονηρῷ θηλάσαντα γάλακτι. τοι- οῦτοι δὲ οἱ ταῖς δοδασκαλίαις τῶν ἀσεβῶν εἰσαγόμενοι.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations. Original English Translation from the Greek (Klostermann).
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